Belgium Repatriates Historic Artifacts to Egypt
Thursday, September 15, 2022
CAIRO, EGYPT—Ahram Online stories that Belgium has handed over two historic picket statues to Egypt. The objects had been seized from an antiquities supplier by Belgian authorities in 2016. One is a painted figurine of a standing man dated to the Previous Kingdom interval, from 2649 to 2150 B.C. The opposite is an ushabti figurine dated to the Late Interval, from 712 to 332 B.C. To examine different picket artifacts present in burials on the Saqqara necropolis, go to “The Mummies Return.”